MONUMENT NO. 443565

A large collection of over 8000 flint implements and flakes have been recovered from the stream valley at Batworthy since early this century. Most of the collection is thought to be in Plymouth City Museum.

Flint implements and flakes of pigmy type found in the three fields at Batworthy and also in the gardens. In the latter place a small ovate was found. (1)

(Areas centred SX 65758680 & SX 66088658) Many implements found here, one of the richest flint areas on Dartmoor. (2)

Torquay Museum held the F N Budd collection of over 8000 flints found at Batworthy, Gidleigh Moor. This collection has however been lost, or at least mislaid, though searches have been made by recent curators (see SX 68 NE 63, Russell collection of flints from Gidleigh Moor). (3)

Over 8000 flint artefacts of Neolithic and Early Bronze Age date have been recorded from the stream valley near Batworthy, SX 715853 (sic) of which over 1000 flint were collected by R H Worth prior to 1919. The assemblage includes plano-convex and discoidal knives, one leaf, one hollow-based, three triangular 5-barbed and tanged arrowheads; scrapers and awls, and a spindle-whorl. The finds are in Plymouth City Museum. (4)